Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were several major international events during the time the Class of 1960 was at Harvard: the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, shot down Gary Powers and the U-2 plane he piloted on a spy mission over Russian soil: China developed its own atomic bomb; the Suez Canal crisis brewed; Castro rose to power; and racial conflict in South Africa came to a head in the bloody Sharpeville riots...
...Miami's Little Havana, the event was treated as a holiday. A thanksgiving Mass was held in Coconut Grove, and scores of jubilant Cuban Americans phoned radio stations to express their approval. On the 83rd anniversary of Cuba's independence, Radio Marti, a U.S.-sponsored anti-Castro radio service, kicked off its inaugural broadcast at 1180 on the AM dial with a short salutation, "Buenos dias, Cuba," followed by a gentle folk song...
...station also had its first big news item: three hours before the broadcast, Cuban President Fidel Castro showed his displeasure with the launching of Radio Marti by suspending a U.S.-Cuba immigration agreement arduously completed only last December. Castro was particularly galled that the Reagan Administration had named the station after Jose Marti, the 19th century Cuban patriot and writer who regularly warned his country about imperialism. Castro's action, which ends visits to Cuba by exiles living in the U.S., was a direct retaliation against Miami's fiercely anti-Communist Cubans, who had been lobbying for Radio Marti since...
...during the mass exodus of 125,000 Cubans from the port of Mariel in 1980; a mere 201 such "excludables" had been returned before last week. In addition, the agreement was to allow some 3,000 of Cuba's political prisoners to emigrate to the U.S. One hour after Castro's suspension was announced, the first, and perhaps the last, group of eleven political prisoners and their families arrived at Miami International Airport...
...moment, the Administration is downplaying the gravity of Castro's reaction. The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department are continuing to process the excludables, as well as would-be Cuban immigrants. Said one State Department official: "With every day that goes by without additional reaction, the chances are better for things to slip back to where they were." President Reagan, who personally gave the go-ahead for the station May 18, seemed unperturbed by Cuba's response. On Monday, he was due in Miami at a fund raiser for Republican Senator Paula Hawkins, one of Radio Marti...